Ainars Bagatskis

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Basketball player
Ainars Bagatskis
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2007

Player information
birthday March 29, 1967
place of birth Riga , Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
size 198 cm
position Small forward
Clubs as coaches
2018–2019 Brose Baskets 2019– Kiew Basket
National team as coach
2011-2017 Latvia 2019- Ukraine

Ainars Bagatskis (born March 29, 1967 in Riga , Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a Latvian former basketball player and current coach who was head coach for the German Bundesliga club Brose Bamberg until January 2019 . Since 2019 he has been the coach of Kiew Basket and the Ukrainian national basketball team .

Career as a player

Bagatskis started his playing career in 1985 with VEF Riga and ended it in 2006 with Barons Riga .

Career as a coach

Bagatskis began his coaching career in 2005 with Barons Riga . After several positions at various clubs in former Soviet states, he coached the Latvian national basketball team from 2011 to 2017. From 2018 he was the coach of Brose Bamberg in the German basketball league . On January 13, 2019, he was dismissed after a 67:85 home defeat against newly promoted Rasta Vechta .